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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, May 1964
A perhaps-familiar little friend rejoined the land of Yogi Bear 50 years ago this month in the pages of newspapers subscribing to the McNaught Syndicate’s version of cartoondom’s favourite pilfering...
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Cartoons Live On Location
Television stations, apparently, couldn’t just rely on kids to turn on the set and watch cartoons on their own. They went out and advertised their shows. I was leafing through 54-year-old copies of...
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Huckleberry Hound — Caveman Huck
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – George Goepper, Layout – Tony Rivera, Backgrounds – Dick Thomas, Written by Warren Foster, Story Director – Paul Sommer, Titles...
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Flintstones Weekend Comics, May 1964
Some nice gag set-ups highlight the world of the Flintstones in the Sunday comics (Saturday in Canada) 50 years ago this month, though one story bothers me. In the May 17th comic (third below), Barney...
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Little Red Riding Lozzi
“Little Red Riding Huck” is a funny cartoon and it gets off to a nice start with an Art Lozzi background. Lozzi decided since the cartoon is a fairy tale spoof, it should have toadstools in it. Big...
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Snooper and Blabber — Zoom-Zoom Blabber
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – La Verne Harding, Layout – Don Sheppard, Backgrounds – Dick Thomas, Written by Mike Maltese, Story Director – Alex Lovy, Titles...
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Play With Huck
You remember “Concentration,” where contestants would match items hidden behind numbers to reveal parts of a puzzle. Well, Huckleberry Hound had his own version of “Concentration,” though it was a...
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Yogi Bear — Yogi’s Pest Guest
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Bill Keil, Layout – Tony Rivera, Backgrounds – Dick Thomas, Written by Warren Foster, Story Director – Alex Lovy, Titles – Art...
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Huckleberry Hound in Circus Capers
This is kind of a Huckleberry Hound cartoon. Some time ago, Mark Christiansen posted individual drawings from a Huckleberry Hound flip book. You can see them RIGHT HERE. The drawings were taken from...
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Augie Doggie — Ape to Z
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Animation – Hicks Lokey, Layout – Tony Rivera, Backgrounds – Dick Thomas, Written by Mike Maltese, Story Direction – Alex Lovy, Titles – Art Goble,...
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A Lucrative Cartoon Sideline
Below you see some Hanna-Barbera characters you should recognise. The photo accompanies an article of the May 27, 1963 edition of Sponsor magazine entitled “Does TV merchandising help build high...
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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, June 1964
Why buy ads in newspapers for your movie when you can get them for free? Hanna-Barbera used several editions of its Yogi Bear Sunday newspaper comic (Saturday in Canada) to plug the newly-released...
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Quick Draw McGraw — Baba Bait
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Animation: Don Williams; Backgrounds – Dick Thomas; Written by Mike Maltese; Titles – Art Goble; Production Supervision – Howard Hanson. (No...
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Lah-ttle Bird Mouse
There’s no constant talk, talk, talk in “Little Bird Mouse,” one of the earliest Pixie and Dixie cartoons. There are plenty of places where the soundtrack consists of Geordie Hormel’s ‘ZR-48 Fast...
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Pixie and Dixie — Strong Mouse
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Hicks Lokey, Layout – Tony Rivera, Backgrounds – Dick Thomas, Written by Warren Foster, Story Direction – Art Davis, Titles –...
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Farewell, Casey
The adventures of “those meddling kids and that dog” are out of the time-frame of this blog, but an exception must be made to mark the sad demise of Casey Kasem. Kasem was one of a number of Los...
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Now a Song From Our Sponsor
A deal between Hanna-Barbera and Kellogg’s resulted in the best-ever seven-minute TV cartoons being put on the air. Ad agency Leo Burnett bought or bartered for a half-hour each weekday on various...
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Blabber Mouse Blabs
Everyone interested in this blog, I trust, recognises who this is. Yes, it’s Blabber Mouse, specifically from his first appearance in “Puss N’ Booty” (1959). But perhaps you don’t know who this is. It...
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Yogi Bear — Loco Locomotive
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Ken Muse, Layout – Tony Rivera, Backgrounds – Art Lozzi, Written by Warren Foster, Story Direction – Alex Lovy, Titles – Art...
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Flintstones Weekend Comics, June 1964
Even people who aren’t fans of Hanna-Barbera cartoons have no doubt heard the many sound effects the studio developed over its existence. I’ll bet if you read along with the comics below, you can hear...
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